Nature writing, memoir, poetry and prose from a meaning-making marine biologist.
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Rebellious Book Edition
In an essay from one of my favorite authors this week, the one and only , she has a thing or two to say about reading as an act of rebellion, but also, she says, as an act of hope. Here’s a quote that hit me square in the solar plexus:
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The S-E-X Talk
A boy at school told my daughter about sex last week. This all went down during circle story time, of course. While their teacher read Stuart Little to a group of crisscross-applesauce second graders, he whispered in her ear, “Do you know a...
A Benediction for the Birds
Photo by Vincent van Zalinge on Unsplash
The birds are restless, and so am I—flitting, fluttering, fattening up, anxious for flight. We have a word for the birds’ condition: Zugunruhe, a German term roughly equivalent to “migratory restles...
The Whales in our Cells
I grabbed her hand when the whales came. Not my phone, thank God—not that glowing, inanimate attention‑hoarder. It didn’t occur to me to record the moment, to take a photo or a video to post later. It only occurred to me that I needed her l...
God of the Untamed Beasts
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Dear Friends,
I am ragged. Tattered and weary. I will not pretend otherwise. But even here, dragging myself in such an undignified and awkward man...
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Nature writer, marine biologist, and mother. I braid science, absurdity, spirituality, and the daily astonishments of raising a child. Writing a memoir about love and whales.
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